Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori [in Booklist]
27 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Short Stories, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Once more, internationally bestselling Sayaka Murata confronts unspeakable topics with quotidian calm, shockingly convincing logic, and creepy humor in a dozen genre-defying stories, translated again by her chosen, Japanese-to-English enabler, Ginny Tapley Takemori. Death is no longer an ending, full stop, in “A First-Rate Material,”...